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2026-04-23 17:48:52 UTC

“Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys “
For smart people, they seem kind of slow on the uptake.
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
#surveillance #liberty #fascism

2026-04-21 02:13:31 UTC

‘“I have run a hedge fund, I am starting another one, and it is not nearly as regulated,” [w]eev stated, having separately referenced “a meeting with Peter Thiel’s right hand this week”.
'In the same exchange, he spoke warmly of the eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who played a central role in PayPal’s creation alongside Thiel: “I’ve met Pierre, I like Pierre, and he’s a friend of a close friend.”’
Barrett Brown connects dots on white supremacy.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/the-neo-nazi-enforcer-who-helped-build-peter-thiels-online-influence-empire/
#EpsteinFiles #broligarchy

2026-04-04 19:15:59 UTC

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Signal video call links can host up to 75 people now.

2026-02-13 19:02:37 UTC

This cursed idea must be stopped. No matter how faceblind you are and might want this as a party trick, computerized facial recognition for all makes the world an unsafe place for millions of people, especially those who use obscurity to hide from violent ex partners. The server will collect information. If not now, then later, and we will have made another panopticon. #surveillance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates

2026-01-24 23:36:04 UTC

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I hope that’s archived.

2026-01-24 23:24:18 UTC

Bellingcat has the evidence. CNN lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/bellingcat.com/post/3md6vleoxks2t #Minneapolis https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DT6SjqZEv17

2025-12-23 20:37:23 UTC

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I seem to be fine-tuned for noticing scorpions on the ceiling.

2025-12-23 10:54:04 UTC

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I love the zodiac tiles in the ceiling.

2025-12-18 10:47:49 UTC

Thanks to reporter @npub1h9q…fkmf for covering court cases like this.
It’s important for everyone to see cops just lie over and over under oath.
This heinous behavior is the opposite of what any civilized society would want in a police force, particularly in a court of law.
Fortunately the jury wasn’t fooled and they put a stop to this nonsense. https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115735961128157406

2025-11-21 08:16:51 UTC

#uspol
“The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels. (1/2)

2025-11-19 05:52:00 UTC

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"
"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html
Paper: https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census
#privacy

2025-11-13 01:47:10 UTC

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Autorefresh can create terrible UX and accessibility for people who are reading something when it happens. They can lose their place on a long thread. Twitter clients did this for a while and people just turned off autorefresh in order to cope.

2025-10-26 17:43:12 UTC

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo

2025-10-13 18:50:02 UTC

#Bamboo #plastic sounds like a potential way forward from our fossil fuel plastic disaster. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2499052-biodegradable-plastic-made-from-bamboo-is-strong-and-easy-to-recycle/

2025-10-02 08:56:57 UTC

#EvilCorp again
"Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user interactions with its AI products will soon be used to sell targeted ads across its social media platforms."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/meta-plans-to-sell-targeted-ads-based-on-data-in-your-ai-chats/

2025-09-26 07:26:38 UTC

"State Congresswoman Haley Stevens has announced that she will introduce articles of impeachment against U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
https://www.wnem.com/2025/09/25/mi-congresswoman-drafting-articles-impeachment-against-rfk-jr/ #uspol

2025-09-20 05:04:40 UTC

“Essentially, #Salesforce (a $230 billion company) is strong-arming a small nonprofit for teens, by providing less than a week to pony up a pretty massive sum of money, or risk cutting off all our communications. That’s absurd.”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/slack_nonprofit_license_hike_threat/
“This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too”
#hackclub #mattermost #slack #enshittification

2025-09-14 03:53:37 UTC

Hats off for Jon Green, an Iowa official, who is not taking the knee to fascists, dead or alive.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-green-kim-reynolds-charlie-kirk_n_68c5c5c1e4b0254a6c64463a
#uspol

2025-09-10 09:00:19 UTC

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo
“Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza. (1/2)

2025-09-10 05:12:41 UTC

“The impact on human lives is incredible. People are being fired because they’re not adopting these tools fast enough. People are sitting in jobs they don’t like because they’re afraid if they go somewhere else it’ll be worse. People are spending all this time trying to get good at prompting and feeling bad because they’re failing.
"This whole thing is bullshit.”
https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
#dev

2025-09-10 01:29:00 UTC

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I’m so sorry they put you through that.
Thank you for standing up for everyone.

2025-09-06 18:03:08 UTC

“Trump and Bondi have named their next targets (surprise surprise, they’re all blue cities with Black mayors):
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Oakland
New York City
Chicago
"They won’t stop there. We know the far right fantasizes about military occupation in other Democratic cities, like San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, or Milwaukee…The more we can frustrate his efforts and demonstrate mass backlash and defiance, the [better for us].” https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/115158558199614220

2025-09-06 05:34:35 UTC

US Army veteran disrupts Senate hearing, denounces #Gaza genocide
“Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former Green Beret, and Captain Josephine Guilbeau, a former US intelligence officer, stood up during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, declaring their constitutional duty to speak out against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Capitol Police escorted both from the room.”
https://www.trtworld.com/world/article/8b831534f11a
Video: https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1n8sij2/ghf_fucking_whistleblower_anthony_aguilar/ #uspol

2025-08-29 05:29:24 UTC

Grow flowers, people.
"Climate change and agricultural intensification have increasingly deprived honeybees of the floral diversity they need to thrive…
Increasingly, beekeepers are feeding artificial pollen substitutes to their bees due to insufficient natural pollen.
[Researchers succeeded in] engineering the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce a precise mixture of six key sterols that bees need…”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm
#bees #gardening

2025-08-28 09:40:53 UTC

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“’’And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.”
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html (2/2)

2025-08-28 09:40:53 UTC

“I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, ‘I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.’ Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. (1/2)

2025-08-14 00:45:20 UTC

“The retrospective cohort study included more than 130,000 people in the US. It reveals that the shingles #vaccine (called Shingrix) and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (Arexyv) are associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to the annual flu vaccine.”
‘…findings…suggest "that the AS01 adjuvant itself plays a direct role in lowering #dementia risk.”’
“[Those] who received both the Shingrix and the Arexyv vaccine showed a 37% reduction in risk.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-study-reveals-2-vaccines-that-appear-to-reduce-dementia-risk

2025-08-11 03:13:54 UTC

This loon is probably going to be responsible for killing a record number of people outside of kinetic wars. We will look back at him as a mass murderer who profited from his medical fake information. #covid19 #uspol
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

2025-07-31 21:34:35 UTC

St. Paul, #Minnesota had ‘a significant #cyberattack last Friday that it has been unable to mitigate. …declared a state of emergency…National Guard to assist.
According to remarks by St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, the attack was first noticed early in the morning of Friday, July 25. It was, Carter said, "a deliberate, coordinated digital attack, carried out by a sophisticated external actor—intentionally and criminally targeting our city’s information infrastructure.”’
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/st-paul-mn-was-hacked-so-badly-that-the-national-guard-has-been-deployed/

2025-07-31 21:27:14 UTC

“In a stunning reversal, the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal forecasters—just days before it was set to end. The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of #hurricane season.“
https://gizmodo.com/in-rare-spasm-of-sanity-pentagon-backtracks-on-plan-to-scuttle-storm-tracking-2000637473 #weather #meteorology #noaa #uspol

2025-07-31 21:10:22 UTC

This is one of the best science explainers I've seen, and it's about peacock feathers emitting laser light. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/scientists-use-peacock-feathers-to-make-frickin-laser-beams/ #birds #materials #optics

2025-07-17 23:02:32 UTC

“Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
#USPol #StupidStupid

2025-07-15 03:57:30 UTC

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❤️ What is your sweet pea trick? I am failing so hard at making mine happy.

2025-07-03 19:31:21 UTC

AOC: “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.”
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lt3fvohzjc2q
#USPol #ConcentrationCamps #EthnicCleansing

2025-07-01 20:16:24 UTC

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This seems like a problem @npub1k79…tp5x would know all about.

2025-07-01 10:06:58 UTC

“One of the many problems with allowing user posts to be used for AI training is that companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results. Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google’s AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit…in the hope that the content will be regurgitated by chatbots.”
#PerverseIncentives #Reddit #chatbots #spam

2025-06-29 02:27:28 UTC

Just say no to prison camps, let alone in the swamp.
Go #Florida humans! Thanks for standing up.
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-florida-everglades-protest-db34866aae64a3ff6880310403be40fd #uspol

2025-06-26 01:09:50 UTC

“[Despite] $44 billion a year in [romance] scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates, US banks have failed to prevent mass scale money laundering.
"Chinese-language Telegram channels offer to rent US bank accounts to pig-butchering scammers, who use the accounts to move victims’ cash into crypto.
"Bank of America allowed hundreds of unverified customers to open accounts, prosecutors alleged, including 176 who claimed the same small home as their address.
https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering

2025-06-18 02:34:18 UTC

Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/ #wtaf #uspol

2025-06-18 01:28:11 UTC

It's so good to see Dianna (Physics Girl) recovering finally. Such good news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeIeIcDHD0
#MECFS #LongCovid #Covid19

2025-06-12 06:29:09 UTC

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Lulz https://mastodon.social/@skry/114668671195894999

2025-06-10 04:26:31 UTC

Oh good, Youtube is about to make itself even worse. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/youtube-adopts-looser-moderation-policy-for-videos-about-elections-gender-and-more/

2025-06-09 19:21:54 UTC

The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/08/the-big-ugly-stephen-miller-uses-his-war-on-home-depot-to-invade-california/
#uspol

2025-06-08 21:20:12 UTC

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This sounds like it might revolutionize solar/passive drinking water distillation from air. Is that the hope?

2025-06-08 19:49:12 UTC

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That's very true, but I'm just not used to seeing children as makeup models.

2025-06-08 19:36:11 UTC

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She looks about 13 years old too.

2025-05-10 20:50:22 UTC

Let's stop killing insects our crops, birds, and wildlife need.
Things individuals can do: Grow a variety of native plants and flowers, leave leaf litter for nesting, dim lights at night, reduce pesticide use. I would add: provide a bit of water for them when it's hot and dry.
Kudos to the #PNW, the only US region where butterfly population increased last decade. (9.9%! #NoMoreLawns)
Tips on reducing insect harms generally are discussed in this informative article.
https://theconversation.com/humans-are-killing-helpful-insects-in-hundreds-of-ways-simple-steps-can-reduce-the-harm-255844

2025-05-10 20:30:26 UTC

"The European Commission has launched a new initiative to attract researchers and scientists to the European Union—especially those from the United States. The Choose Europe for Science program, backed with more than half a billion dollars, is designed to offer an alternative to researchers who have been forced to seek new opportunities following cuts in scientific funding imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/europe-launches-program-to-lure-scientists-away-from-the-us/

2025-05-07 01:16:02 UTC

#Oregon fisherman turned in a Chinese mitten crab recently that he caught in the Columbia River.
"An invasive species of crab that's native to East Asia and is known for its ability to climb vertical structures has been found in U.S. waters."
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/weird/invasive-chinese-crab-that-can-scale-walls-spotted-for-1st-time-in-us-pacific-northwest
An invasive species of crab that's native to East Asia and is known for its ability to climb vertical structures has been found in U.S. waters.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/463/903/684/992/784/original/11154bf83f49a978.png

2025-04-29 04:25:48 UTC

“The TAKE IT DOWN Act, while well-intentioned, was written without appropriate safeguards to prevent the mandated removal of content that is not nonconsensual intimate imagery, making it vulnerable to constitutional challenge and abusive takedown requests. Moreover, its ambiguous text can be read to create an impossible requirement for end-to-end encrypted platforms to remove content to which they have no access. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/congress-moving-forward-on-unconstitutional-take-it-down-act/

2025-04-14 03:56:00 UTC

Electricity storage using rechargable phone batteries. So good.
https://indiandefencereview.com/over-650-batteries-hes-been-powering-his-entire-house-since-2016-with-old-laptop-batteries/
#Recycling #Solarpunk

2025-04-14 02:35:17 UTC

"When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice." - Will Bunch, Philly Inquirer
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-crimes-humanity-ice-kristi-noem-20250413.html
// Support real news in America
#uspol

2025-04-09 01:37:56 UTC

"Migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States by using a Biden-era online appointment app have been told to leave the country “immediately,” officials said Monday. It was unclear how many beneficiaries would be affected.
900,000+ people were allowed in the country using the CBP One app since January 2023. They were generally allowed to remain in the United States for two years with authorization to work under a presidential authority called parole"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trumps-dhs-revokes-legal-status-migrants-entered-us-120583830

2025-04-04 16:57:38 UTC

#Fentanyl from #Canada, a Big Lie.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-new-fentanyl-data-undercuts-white-houses-portrayal-of-canadas-role-in/ #uspol

2025-04-03 17:41:10 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/275/258/829/486/757/original/bfce490c86d63d00.jpeg

2025-04-02 08:53:58 UTC

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The first one, for earthquakes, is a Facebook post by the account that also posted it on Twitter, ScienceKonek. Here is the Reddit post of that, for leastworst platform. https://www.reddit.com/r/malaysia/comments/1jndb6m/history_of_south_east_asia_earthquakes_from_1_jan/

2025-04-02 08:47:29 UTC

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Here is the likely original site for the hurricane map and data sources http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7u.html

2025-04-02 08:19:54 UTC

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Where are these amazing maps from?

2025-03-23 22:32:09 UTC

“The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and...Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down...“Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby...955 L’Enfant Plaza...quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. ...Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries.”
// Fascists attack books and #libraries while screaming about free speech the rest of the time.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193015/elon-musk-doge-library-musem-imls #uspol #imls

2025-03-18 19:32:52 UTC

#tesla board members and executive sell more than $100 million in stock.
Like rats on a sinking ship.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-board-members-executive-sell-off-100-million/story?id=119889047

2025-03-18 06:43:31 UTC

Chewing gum is plastic.
"chemical analysis shows that gum contains styrene-butadiene (the durable synthetic chemical used to make car tyres), polyethylene (the plastic used to make carrier bags and bottles) and polyvinyl acetate (woodglue) as well as some sweetener and flavouring."
https://theconversation.com/chewing-gum-is-plastic-pollution-not-a-litter-problem-251662 #health #microplastic

2025-03-17 09:39:06 UTC

"On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.
Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran
#uspol #usmilitary #racism

2025-03-15 07:24:50 UTC

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Congratulations!!!

2025-03-15 06:54:39 UTC

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#alt4you
"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.
Dan Savage"

2025-03-15 01:30:00 UTC

"AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news sources."
"Perplexity provided incorrect information in 37 percent of the queries tested, whereas ChatGPT Search incorrectly identified 67 percent (134 out of 200) of articles queried. Grok 3 demonstrated the highest error rate, at 94 percent."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/
#search #llm #education #research #Fail #journalism #law
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/163/828/191/054/742/original/6520c82c44bf0878.jpg

2025-03-06 07:10:24 UTC

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It looks like these are being cranked out for stock https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&insightstoken=bcid_swFq2qwjQy0IXw*ccid_AWrarCND&form=SBIIRP&iss=SBIUPLOADGET&sbisrc=ImgPaste&idpbck=1&sbifsz=540+x+960+%c2%b7+39.82+kB+%c2%b7+png&sbifnm=image.png&thw=540&thh=960&ptime=44&dlen=54372&expw=450&exph=800&selectedindex=0&id=129844341&ccid=AWrarCND&vt=2&sim=11

2025-03-06 06:24:10 UTC

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I have some of these I think. They are called "Butter and Eggs" https://www.southernbulbs.com/narcissus-orange-phoenix-butter-and-eggs-heirloom-daffodil/

2025-02-26 06:27:02 UTC

Unprotecting whales to own the libs: https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2025/02/25/trump-rices-whale-endangered-protections-rollback/
Won't someone think of the oil and gas industries. #uspol

2025-02-23 00:11:28 UTC

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#alt4you 3 men giving the Nazi salute: ??, Steve Bannon, Elon Musk.

2025-02-17 04:17:28 UTC

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All it needs now is a sliding ladder layer.

2025-02-08 23:43:13 UTC

"seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department’s refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations."
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-and-nonbinary-people-take-trump-to-court-over-passport-restrictions
#uspol #trans #aclu

2025-02-05 03:34:44 UTC

Trending #news headlines in the #Fediverse thanks to Feditrends
https://feditrends.com/
Trending links in your own follows at Fedseer
https://news.feedseer.com
(Follow a few hundred people to populate your home timeline first.)
Trending posts on Mastodon.social:
https://mastodon.social/deck/explore
You can set your web view in the web settings. I like Advanced Slow. Please also set your language there so that the translate feature can best help your readers. (Many use an app too.)
#Introduction #feditips

2025-02-03 21:32:04 UTC

Also, fuck all the software engineers just following orders.

2025-01-20 11:21:15 UTC

Recent cat deaths from bird flu prompt new rules about pet food in the US
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-01-18/cat-deaths-bird-flu-prompts-pet-food-new-rules
#USA #birdflu #cats

2025-01-19 02:55:19 UTC

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Best wishes for his speedy recovery. I'm glad he made it home to recoup.

2025-01-17 20:49:28 UTC

Shutting down hydroelectric dams on the Willamette to save salmon makes more sense than fish vacuums, says Biden admin: (1/3)

2025-01-13 09:52:52 UTC

"...she thought she would have to work during the time the meeting was scheduled. She works at a school in the Palisades. Her school burned down. So had her sister’s house. I saw my neighbor right before we left. I told her I would be back on Friday. I had a flashback to my last day in the VICE office in March 2020, when they sent us home for COVID. I told everyone I would see them in a week or two. Some of those people I never saw again."
https://www.404media.co/email/512a4009-8b31-43ac-bb3b-f27ba5e8f8e9/
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis

2025-01-11 04:39:52 UTC

Another #Tesla recall.
"Tesla issued a recall for over 200,000 electric vehicles due to an issue with its latest computer hardware that can short circuit and disable some safety features including the rearview camera.
Tesla submitted the recall on January 6th, which acknowledges faulty computers are in some of the most recent builds of Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X vehicles."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340689/tesla-rearview-camera-recall-self-driving-computer-short-circuit
// How many software bugs have caused recalls for Teslas so far? Seems like a lot.

2025-01-01 10:15:24 UTC

"America’s oil fields are increasingly split between a small number of wells producing record profits and everything else. Researchers estimate roughly 90% of wells are already dead or barely producing."
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-orphan-wells-cleanup-playbook-siana-tom-ragsdale
#ClimateCrisis #oil #pollution #usa

2024-12-27 05:36:16 UTC

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This is an amazing period artwork and a great use of materials. Brava!
I would shadowbox it to help keep it safe for future art history.

2024-12-27 05:24:35 UTC

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"Northwest Naturals, a pet food company in Portland, #Oregon, announced a voluntary recall Tuesday of one batch of its 2-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for the virus. The product was sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, as well as #Canada’s British Columbia." #usa #cats #birdflu
https://apnews.com/article/cats-dogs-bird-flu-pets-raw-food-7a57b3047164676a7d237bcd05a5b9db

2024-12-27 05:18:03 UTC

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(It's always a good time for indoor cats because they eat endangered wild birds.)

2024-12-27 05:14:39 UTC

It might be a good time to start keeping cats indoors, since bird flu is killing big cats in zoos now.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/12/bird-flu-is-sweeping-through-zoos/ #cats #birdflu

2024-12-27 04:39:56 UTC

'Tuberville has said that limiting lawmakers' ability to trade stocks would be "ridiculous" and that "it would really cut back on the amount of people that would want to come up here and serve."' #Alt4You #USPol https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tzy4hibtkautrntsz5f3ns37/post/3leb2ojvbqc2a

2024-12-16 23:13:47 UTC

The worst idea lately: Force the US gov to bail out bitcoin liquidity, at the top of the market and upward.
Not only is this theft, but it proves Bitcoin has no intrinsic value as a currency or as a decentralized anything free of governmental control.
Owners learned the hard way that it's not anonymous and it's clearly mainly used for money laundering.
Don't let them take down the world economy with this nonsense. Make some noise in Congress.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-is-an-enormous-heist-chris-hayes-sounds-the-alarm-on-republican-bill-that-would-transfer-100-billion-to-bitcoin-owners/

2024-12-13 04:16:55 UTC

Please don't work for Larry.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
#billionaire #surveillance #technocrats #TechWontSaveUs #AI #AIIsGoingGreat #1984 #Fahrenheit451 #SmartCity

2024-12-09 06:46:45 UTC

Viral misinfo helps deadly ants persist in #Australia.
Rising crap level floats all doubts.
#ClimateDiary https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/113587894954609461

2024-12-02 17:29:22 UTC

The amazing HandBrake is available for macOS, Windows, and linux.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/handbrake-1-9-features-lossless-vp9-encoding
It sounds complicated, but you just drag your video to the icon, choose the output resolution and press the button, then your video is saved to a file a fraction of the size of the original .mov or .mp4. I usually use "fast 1080p30" for example. There are also presets for maximum 25MB videos for web use and more.

2024-12-02 16:59:57 UTC

Open hardware for OpenWrt Wi-Fi boxes
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/openwrt_one_foss_wifi_router/

2024-11-26 23:45:10 UTC

#bloomscrolling https://fediworld.de/notes/a0xkul7u1mbr012o

2024-11-26 06:35:37 UTC

#Oregon has the second-worst housing crisis in the USA. (Worst is Hawai'i.)
Grim statistics.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/22/oregon-state-of-housing-report/

2024-11-26 05:10:20 UTC

Salmon returned a month after dam removal.
The "dams only produced...enough to power about 70,000 homes. They also didn’t provide irrigation, drinking water or flood control, according to Klamath River Renewal Corporation."
"The Klamath River’s headwaters lie on the tribe’s homelands in Oregon, and members once depended on salmon for 25% of their food. But for more than a century their waters have not held any salmon"
#Oregon #California #rewilding
Thanks to #KlamathBasin #Yurok #Karuk #fish

2024-11-25 05:20:43 UTC

"Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage.
"The government called the agreement “the biggest change to the Danish landscape in over 100 years.”
“The Danish nature will change in a way we have not seen since the wetlands were drained in 1864,”
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-forest-trees-fertilizer-e55416347fcc385a3ea8e2415726f908
#ClimateCrisis #Denmark

2024-11-24 08:58:24 UTC

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I would ask https://translifeline.org/about/issues/ for resources and referrals.

2024-11-23 21:56:50 UTC

"The East Antarctic ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise global sea levels by approximately 50 metres if completely melted.
"In the past 30 years, global sea levels have risen by about 10 centimetres, according to the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP).
"Scientists say sea levels could rise by up to one metre by the end of the century under a high emissions scenario."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-22/researchers-warn-of-possible-catastrophic-sea-level-rise/104626804

2024-11-23 08:44:03 UTC

"The London Beekeepers’ Association expressed concern that “The prevailing ‘save the bees’ narrative is often based on poor, misleading or absent information about #bees and their needs. It can imply that keeping honeybees will help bees.
"In fact, there is now a global push, led by current and former beekeepers, to limit honey bee populations in order to save wild bees, which do practically all the pollinating in the world."
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/05/our-better-nature-put-the-brakes-on-honey-bees-our-future-depends-on-it/

2024-11-20 05:24:43 UTC

The US border patrol is keen to have a look at travelers' social media posts. So if you plan to travel in and out of the US and don't have a separate account for cat pictures, praise of the status quo, and fortune cookies, you might want to start one now.

2024-11-19 08:36:33 UTC

#Free coloring books: https://www.openculture.com/2023/04/download-free-coloring-books-from-nearly-100-museums-libraries.html
#kids #education #fun

2024-11-18 09:19:28 UTC

MT:
Streets full of destroyed and abandoned cars after flooding in and around Valencia, an estimated 137,000 cars.
The costs resulting from this one rain shower are approximately thirty billion euros.
€30,000,000,000.
But taking measures to combat the #climatecrisis is still considered too expensive. https://mastodon.green/@gevoel/113500230706030946

2024-11-15 20:21:25 UTC

#oregon
“Marion County Clerk Bill Burgess told the Capital Chronicle his office has 809 ballots for that race that have had ballot envelope signatures verified. Another 733 weren’t accepted — most of those ballots are subject to signature curing, which means that a voter either forgot to sign their ballot envelope or their signature didn’t match the signature election officials had on file.
Those voters have until Nov. 26 to fix the issue."
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/oregon-democrats-have-one-vote-edge-quest-house-supermajority https://sh.itjust.works/post/28147699